Ramona Ramlochand is an artist and educator based in Montréal. She holds a BFA from the University of Ottawa and MFA from Concordia University. Ramlochand has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally since the early 1990’s; notably the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture, Dakar, Senegal (2010); XIV Encuentros Abiertos de Fotograpfia, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006) and Biennale de l’image, Paris, France (1998). She has received grants and support from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Conseil des Arts et es Lettres du Québec, the Ontario Arts Council, The British Arts Council, The Canadian Embassies in Paris and Buenos Aires. Ramlochand was the recipient of the Barbara Spohr Photography Memorial Award from the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her works are in the public collections of the Museé de Québec, City of Ottawa, Canada Council Art Bank and the Ottawa Art Gallery, along with many private collections. 

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Journeys, both within and out of Canada has always informed my art practice. I was born in Guyana, grew up in England, Cyprus and Canada, and have spent long periods of time traveling in Africa, Asia and Europe. Though the effects of experiencing various cultures, is somewhat familiar to me, understanding cycles of change and dislocation remains an ongoing process.

My work centers on the idea of fragmentation that blurs the edges of place and visually explores how we cut, edit and reinterpret our environments to fit into a version of who we are. The work is intoxicated with memory sentiment, and feelings of displacement, and speaks about the ambiguity of place; the fragility and duplicity of the world; the mutability of time; the sense of shifting identity; the uncertainty of self.

Thus, the final work becomes echoes of a place that no longer belongs to the ‘whole’’, but at the same time is very much part of it. What this bears resemblance to is a kind of postmodern ‘masala’ (to use the Indian term for blending of the spices), one generated not by a theoretical position but by the vagaries of my own life.

Ramona Ramlochand 2026